The United States, France and Britain launched 105 missiles overnight in retaliation for a suspected poison gas attack in Syria... READ MORE›
In early 2017, inspectors from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons visited the Barzah facility... READ MORE›
He authorized a barrage of Tomahawk cruise missiles to hit a single Syrian airfield in April 2017 in retaliation for Assad's use of sarin gas against civilians... READ MORE›
Chlorine has legitimate industrial and other civilian uses, so it is not banned by the Chemical Weapons Convention... READ MORE›
A sarin attack triggered Trump's decision last year to strike a Syrian air base... READ MORE›
Trump says U.S., allies will launch precision strikes until the Syrian government stops the use of chemical weapons... READ MORE›
In early 2017, inspectors from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons visited the Barzah facility... READ MORE›
A global chemical warfare watchdog group, the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, said its fact-finding mission would go as planned in Douma... READ MORE›
Haley said the allies have a large body of evidence showing Syria used chemical weapons, including sarin, last Saturday... READ MORE›
A couple of short years after crafting a deal to have Assad surrender his chemical weapons, Putin was offering him protection as he deployed them again... READ MORE›
The US says missiles hit targets associated with the Syrian regime's chemical weapons programme ... READ MORE›
Evidence that the nerve agent sarin was also used was inconclusive, he said... READ MORE›
Syria agreed in 2013 to give up its chemical weapons after a nerve gas attack killed hundreds of people in Douma... READ MORE›
But soon there were new reports of chemical weapons attacks, with strong evidence implicating Syrian Government forces... READ MORE›
The action comes almost a week after rebelsA claimed SyrianA forces killed more than 40 people in a chemical weapons attack in Douma... READ MORE›
Asked about Trump's Mission Accomplished assertion, White said it pointed to the successful targeting of three Syrian chemical weapons sites... READ MORE›
The OPCW confirmed on Thursday that the lethal poison used in the attack on the Skripals was a military-grade nerve agent of high purity ... READ MORE›
After a sarin gas bombing last April that killed 85 civilians, the president ordered a Tomahawk missile strike against a Syrian air base... READ MORE›
Some analysts say the chemical attacks will continue unless Russian and Iran suffer consequences for supporting Assad's tactics... READ MORE›
Russia's ambassador to Britain, Alexander Yakovenko, has identified the alleged poison as Novichok A-234, derived from an earlier version known as A-232... READ MORE›
Syria 500 Douma patients had chemical attack symptoms, reports say... READ MORE›
US President Donald Trump said Wednesday that missiles will be coming in response to an alleged chemical attack in Syria, defying Russian warnings against a strike... READ MORE›
The tweet came as Trump administration officials have consulted with global allies on a possible joint military response to Syria's alleged poison gas attack... READ MORE›
The tweet came as Trump administration officials have consulted with global allies on a possible joint military response to Syria's alleged poison gas attack... READ MORE›
These are external links and will open in a new window What is Trump's plan in Syria?... READ MORE›
It was the first direct US military action against forces commanded by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad... READ MORE›
133000 Flee Besieged Syrian Towns in Eastern Ghouta UN Says... READ MORE›
Syria war What we know about Douma 'chemical attack'... READ MORE›
Today was the first day on the job for Bolton, who has previously advocated military action against Syria... READ MORE›
An alleged chemical weapons attack affected people in the rebel-held town of Douma, Syria... READ MORE›
Dr. Shajul Islam, who works in northern Syria, shared images showing the aftermath of the attack in rebel-held Idlib province... READ MORE›
Does the UK have control samples of the chemical warfare agent, which British representatives refer to as Novichok ?... READ MORE›
Here is what you need to know about the highly toxic chemical What is VX nerve agent?... READ MORE›
The victims' symptoms are consistent with sarin, the nerve agent that was dropped on an opposition-held area near Damascus in 2013, killing more than 1,000 people... READ MORE›
The U.S. airstrikes were carefully designed to avoid hitting Russian personnel at the Syrian air base, U.S. officials said Friday... READ MORE›
Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe warned Thursday that North Korea might be capable of firing a missile loaded with sarin nerve gas toward Japan... READ MORE›
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said a suspected chemical weapons attack was a fabrication to justify a US military strike, AFP news agency reported... READ MORE›
Sarin as a banned, human-made chemical warfare agent classified as a nerve agent... READ MORE›
Chemical weapons experts say Tuesday's attack appears to show that the Syrian regime did not hand over its entire stockpile to be destroyed... READ MORE›
Speaking Thursday night, Trump said Assad launched a horrible chemical weapons attack on innocent civilians using a deadly nerve agent... READ MORE›
Then Abdel Hameed Alyousef took them to a mass grave where 22 members of his family were being buried... READ MORE›
UN weighs possible war-crime probe as medical workers in rebel-held Idlib province struggle to cope with casualties... READ MORE›
Since Friday, the Syrian government has intensified its air and artillery strikes on Douma, killing civilians and destroying and damaging civilian infrastructure, the United Nations said... READ MORE›
Dozens of people have been killed in what local medics said was a toxic gas attack on the besieged town of Douma near Damascus... READ MORE›
His accusations against Assad put him directly at odds with Moscow, the Syrian's president principal backer... READ MORE›
White House Syria could be preparing chemical attack... READ MORE›
Scores feared dead in Syria 'chemical attack' as US demands international response after 'horrifying' reports... READ MORE›
Syria Probe reveals chemical weapons use in Hama... READ MORE›
Former employee of Japanese facility for disabled people turns himself in after killing 19 people in a stabbing spree at Tsukui Yamayurien facility in Sagamihara, officials say... READ MORE›
The global chemical weapons watchdog said Thursday that it has initiated contact with Syrian authorities as it investigates the attack... READ MORE›
In his brief statement, President Trump did not make broad claims or suggest further action was in the offing... READ MORE›
The White House says it is confident Bashar al-Assad's government was behind an apparent chemical attack that killed at least 58 people in north-west Syria... READ MORE›
There are no warehouses, no factories anywhere in Khan Sheikoun, Mr Youssef said... READ MORE›
Syrian rescuers and medics said the attack on Douma killed at least 40 people... READ MORE›
The UN Security Council on Wednesday opened a meeting on a suspected chemical weapons attack in Syria that killed at least 72 of people, including 20 children... READ MORE›
Nerve agents such as Sarin and VX are thought to be the focus of North Korean production, it said... READ MORE›
The UN Security Council convened on Wednesday to discuss the reported use of chemical weapons in western Syrian town of Idlib on Tuesday... READ MORE›
We deplore Russia's continued defence of the Assad regime even after the chemical weapons attack on innocent civilians... READ MORE›
The chemical weapons attack on the town of Khan Sheikhoun killed scores of people, according to a war monitor, Syrian opposition groups and Western countries... READ MORE›
Russia, Assad's principal ally, has asserted that a Syrian government air strike hit a rebel chemical weapons factory, causing the disaster... READ MORE›
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